Leaving work yesterday I see my RR tire is waaay low, I aired it up, made it home, heck I saw this before I even took the wheel off! Largest object I’ve had in a tire Took 3 minutes to put a plug in it, DONE. Bought a plug kit years ago from the tool guy, it comes in handy since getting a tire plugged is probably 90.00
When I was going to car shows selling my interior kits I got within a few miles of the Charlotte show and a tire blew out on the truck. I had a spare tire but no rim so I stopped at a tire store and got it put on. When the guy got the tire off the rim he called me over. I had run over a wiper arm and it “fired” right into the tire. He said he had never seen anything like that before. Duane
I was dispatched to pickup a loaded 53' trailer years ago from one of our yards one Sunday morning (of course) Found this carnage during my pretrip inspection. Previous driver somehow missed seeing that and the damaged rim. Needed more than a plug to fix this.
The wife got a flat (blowout!) one rainy night on I-85 in Atlanta. A tow truck was behind her and he pulled over and changed the tire for her. When she got home I looked at the flat tire. It had a 10mm open end wrench stuck in it!
I once had a leaky tire patched and the guy who did it brought the shortest thinnest finishing nail you could possibly buy. About 3/4" long x hair diameter. Went through between the treads, but I cannot understand how it didn't bend -- guess I hit it just right.
Most of the time it's the rear tire that gets the foreign object because the front flips it up in the air
Got a screw in my snow tire right now been in there since last year lol Getting rid of them this year they pretty much worn out.
It's $90 if they will even do it. Some places won't touch a tire that's over seven years old. I took my Bonneville tire to Discount Tire to get balanced. I was driving and I heard the weight come off and after that, at 60, I had a vibration in the rear. They refused to balance it because it was over seven years old. The manager tried to tell me that it was Federal law not to do any work on a tire over seven years old. I informed him, in front of customers, that I was a retired ASE certified mechanic and that there was no such law. He then said that is was Discount tire's policy. I told him that's what he should say and not make up laws. I can understand that they may not want to repair or mount an old tire, but I see no reason to refuse to balance it. I later took the tire to a local repair shop an the guy balanced it for $15.
I had a big bolt embed itself in my rear tire when I drove through a road construction area. First thing I heard was a Click-Click noise when driving. That led me to investigate and find this,
When I had my shop built, I ran over a roofing screw on a tire that I had just purchased that morning, less than 100 miles on the tire. It went in right at the sidewall...
Was returning to Massachusetts from Florida somewhere around 1989 in our cheapie K-car when I heard a ticking noise from the left rear wheel area. Sure enough, there was a roofing nail in the tread of the almost-new tire. I knew that if I pulled it out, it would be an instant flat. I spat on it to see if there were air bubbles - there weren't. I checked the air pressure (an accurate tire gauge lives in the glove compartment of each of our drivers) and it was OK. I drove the car about 20 miles to the next service area and the pressure hadn't changed. I told the bride that it wasn't leaking and that I'd fix it when we got home (We were in Virginia when I noticed the ticking.) Anne thought that I was nuts and that I was going to do all the driving until the tire was fixed. I drove the car complete with the nail all the way back to MA. The day after we got home I pulled the nail and in about a minute the tire was effectively flat. I plugged the hole and pumped the tire up. We continued to drive the car with the plugged tire until we sold it a couple of years later.
We were at my in laws one day and ordered pizza. The delivery guy gets there and asks if we have a jack because he got a nail in his tire. I go out to look at it and said we probably have a patch and air, we can fix it. There was a blunt end punch through the tire and the blunt end was next to the valve stem. It had gone through the steel rim! It wasn't like you put the punch up to the tire and ran it over. It was at an angle through the tire and rim. It had to have been kicked up by the front tire and set up just right to go in the rear at speed. He needed a patch and a welder. But I think his tire shop would have hung it on the wall.
